… I will therefore simply mention some of the costs of mating, without attempting to quantify them…
Furthermore, animal courtship and mating behavior are often elaborate. This may well be a …

… Female mating bonds include long-term monogamy, serial monogamy, polyandry and …
Both male and female mating behaviour varies widely within species. Variation in male mating …

… We discuss the evolutionary consequences of disturbance on plant mating systems, and in
… plant mating will lead to new opportunities for better understanding of how mating systems …

This book presents the first unified conceptual and statistical framework for understanding
the evolution of reproductive strategies. Using the concept of the opportunity for sexual …

… Explanations for why assortative mating varies have been … The idea that assortative mating
affects inequality and … I review the literature on the consequences of assortative mating for (a) …

… We show here that mating with males greatly reduces lifespan in female fruitflies whose
rates of egg-production and egg-fertility do not differ, suggesting both that simple nutrient …

… Although neglected within mainstream psychology for decades, mating is beginning to …
posed by mating, we would not be alive to ponder these improbable feats. Our mating minds—the …

… Although the term ‘mating system’is sometimes used to describe fertilization … mating occurs.
Here we follow this convention. The term ‘mating system’is used to describe how mating and …

… The evolution of female multiple mating is often confused with the issue … -mating situation.
Therefore, we still need to explain the possible advantage of multiple mating over single mating…

… an alternative theory of mating systems among birds and … mating patterns of broad groups
of species for which there are no detailed observations of the factors influencing mating …